1. What is the Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize?
   Unlike other teaching prizes that honor instructors' overall teaching excellence, this Prize honors original, specific innovations to improve student learning. Examples are new ways to engage students in the learning process, new uses of instructional technology, new approaches to student collaboration, or new methods of replicating the advantages of a small course in a large lecture.
    
2. What is the intended use of the prize money?
   The prize money may be used for any teaching or research activities.
    
3. Who is eligible to receive this award?
   The award is open to faculty on the University's Ann Arbor campus.
    
4. Who reviews the TIP nominations and selects finalists and winners?
   A faculty committee reviews the nominations, selects the finalists, and recommends the winners to the Provost.
    
5. Can nominations be made by multiple people?
   It is fine for multiple people to nominate the same teaching innovation. Coordinated nominations are also allowed.
    
6. Can I submit other related material (e.g., CV or letters of support) with the nomination?

Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, CRLT, and the University Library

Nomination Form (Due noon, February 4, 2013)

The Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize differs from Thurnau Professorships and other teaching prizes in that it honors original, specific INNOVATIONS to improve student learning, not instructor's overall teaching excellence.

Click here to view the 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, or 2009 winning projects

Goals

1. To recognize faculty who have developed an innovative project, e.g., new uses of instructional technology, new ways to engage students in the learning process, new approaches to student collaboration, or new methods for replicating the advantages of a small course in a large lecture.
2. To encourage the dissemination of best practices by sharing promising innovations with faculty more broadly.

Award

The award will provide $5,000 to five faculty members (or teams) for their innovative projects to improve student learning.

The awards will be announced each May at the annual campus-wide technology conference, Enriching Scholarship. Read more »

Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, CRLT, and the University Library 

The winners were recognized at the 14th annual Enriching Scholarship event on May 2, 2011.

The five winning teaching innovations are:

• The Leadership Crisis Challenge (LCC): Forging Courage, Judgment, and Integrity
  Professor Susan Ashford (Ross School of Business/ Management and Organizations) View poster
  Professor Ashford is accepting this award on behalf of the Ross Leadership Initiative.
• Teaching Ethics of/with New Technologies
  Professor Paul Conway (School of Information) View poster
• Infusing Technology for Guided Continuous Learning in a Large Gateway Course
  Professor Brenda Gunderson (LSA / Statistics) View poster
• Securing Our FUTURE: Foundations for Undergraduate Teaching -
  Uniting Research and Education
  Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Brian Coppola (LSA/ Chemistry),